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Fighting against racism and fascism
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Tommy’s back on his sunbed – Panama City mayor lets him in
Tommy Robinson can now settle down to his SEVENTH spell on a foreign sun lounger this year after all. While he was waiting in the detention room at Panama City airport to be deported back to the UK, the local…
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Tommy Robinson’s latest sunshine holiday ends in deportation
Well, it was all too predictable that after his rally in London last week, ‘Tommy Robinson’ would use another lump…
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Shock neo-nazi council victory in German elections
Election successes for AfD including their significant advances in last weekend’s local elections at various levels in North Rhein-Westphalia (NRW)…
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Hello, Jodie: far-right rapper, ‘Missus Kent’, unmasked
“She’s outed herself” proclaimed the Daily Star, about “Missus Kent” the far-right songstress dubbed the “Pound shop Lily Allen”. She’s…
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Trump-loving ‘auditors’ try to stir things up in Manchester
Manchester Central Library on St Peter’s Square was recently witness to the horror of 600 racists marching behind a Britain…
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Far-right AfD triples vote in German local elections
Last weekend, citizens of North Rhein-Westphalia headed to the polls for the first local election since 2020. As Germany’s immigration…
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The curious case of Joseph Moulton and Flag Force UK
When a 22-year-old presents himself as a seasoned business consultant with international defence sector links, eyebrows are bound to rise.…
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Britain’s racist upsurge – the view from the mosque
An elderly man sits beside me in the mosque. It’s Friday, our special prayer day, and although there’s another 20…
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Historic fascist turnout heralds dangerous times
There is just one major takeaway from yesterday’s Tommy Robinson-organised ‘Free Speech’ festival in London – 110,000 supporters of a far-right, racist agitator marched through London in the biggest public demonstration of fascism ever seen in this country. Just think…
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UKIP rolls out red carpet for Reform defector – and psychic readings for £14.99
Cue the celebrations at UKIP HQ – they have a local councillor. The first for some time. Well, kind of.…
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Thugs and nazi ‘intellectuals’ get together in Preston
On Sunday afternoon Preston in the north of England, witnessed the latest get together organised by the self-styled ‘intellectual’ journal…
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‘Independent’ county councillor speaks at nazi conference
A supposedly “independent” county councillor broke cover last weekend to speak at a conference in memory of the UK’s leading…
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Home Office bans foreign nazis from UK conference
Two prominent foreign nazis were banned from attending a high-profile far-right gathering in the UK at the weekend. The event…
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The bishop who is the new link between Catholic radicals and far right
Although his name is not well known outside traditionalist Catholic circles, Bishop Paul Morgan has come to occupy a pivotal…
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Size isn’t everything as fuhrer Yerbury’s micro-party meets in Leeds
The men of the National Rebirth Party will know that size isn’t everything. And that’s good because today’s so-called National…
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Sacking signals split in far right intellectual wing
Today the racist movement’s self-styled intellectual wing is again at war with itself, after the world’s leading far-right publisher sacked…
International news
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Tommy’s back on his sunbed – Panama City mayor lets him in
Tommy Robinson can now settle down to his SEVENTH spell on a foreign sun lounger this year after all. While…
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Shock neo-nazi council victory in German elections
Election successes for AfD including their significant advances in last weekend’s local elections at various levels in North Rhein-Westphalia (NRW)…
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Far-right AfD triples vote in German local elections
Last weekend, citizens of North Rhein-Westphalia headed to the polls for the first local election since 2020. As Germany’s immigration…
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Thugs and nazi ‘intellectuals’ get together in Preston
On Sunday afternoon Preston in the north of England, witnessed the latest get together organised by the self-styled ‘intellectual’ journal…
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Far-right leader says fellow anti-migrant campaigners are planning ‘domestic terrorism’
The leader of the far-right Great British National Protest has reported two prominent fellow anti-migrant campaigners to the police for planning what he calls “acts of domestic terrorism”. This will kill people Richard Donaldson, who set up and runs GBNP,…
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UK-linked nazi group tries to start race war in Spain
The new Spanish nazi group Núcleo Nacional, whose masked leader was exposed in a recent Searchlight article, has wasted no…
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Mark Collett fundraising for Aussie nazi who led attack on Indigenous Peoples’ camp
Patriotic Alternative führer Mark Collett is today raising funds for a violent Australian nazi. On his social media accounts, Collett…
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Epping activist arrest sparks new Homeland spat
Former Homeland Party activist Callum Barker, one of the leading figures in the far-right protests at the Bell Hotel in…
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Homeland Party leader filmed in drunken street brawl
Opponents of Homeland leader Kenny Smith have released a video of him involved in a drunken street brawl only two…
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Thousands raised by far right in Dundee ‘migrant attack’ case police say didn’t happen
From the moment UK fascists started to focus on a disturbing incident that happened in Dundee, Scotland, we knew something…
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Homeland Party chief warned ‘shut your mouth or we finish your political career’
Homeland Party duce Kenny Smith declared war on his enemies at a recent ‘Remigration conference’ and his enemies have now…
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Tenconi’s UKIP besieged and humiliated in Liverpool
Saturday was a very bad day indeed for the fascists of UKIP. Leader Nick ‘Lonely’ Tenconi waited an hour to…
Research and analysis
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The Resistible Rise of Reform UK
The May election results were a warning, if one was needed, of the danger of an insurgent Reform UK. Sarah…
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Traditional Britain Group – secrecy, elitism, and the far right’s academic mask
On Saturday May 10, 2025, the Traditional Britain Group will host a luncheon in London to replace its annual black-tie…
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Local elections 2025 – Farage surges and far right turn on Homeland
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has won control of at least seven councils in this week’s local elections. A party that…
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Book Review: The Little Black Book of the Populist Right, Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar
This short, highly readable book explores the growing influence of what Bloomfield and Edgar describe as the ‘populist right’. This…
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Revealed: mystery man behind launch of new Spanish nazi party
An investigation by Searchlight’s contacts in Spain has uncovered the identity of a masked man behind the launch of a new Spanish nazi party – and the reasons he wants to hide. Also involved is one of the best known…
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After Epping – what next for the far right?
Many factions on Britain’s far right are scrambling to claim credit after the temporary High Court injunction ordered the removal…
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How John Tyndall helped cover up a racist murder
It is a very long time since I was a Searchlight mole inside the British fascist movement. Over 30 years…
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‘Tommy Robinson’ enjoys sixth luxury holiday in a year…and guess who’s with him
Tommy Robinson is on another expensive Mediterranean holiday, this time in Northern Cyprus, in a villa in Kyrenia. It’s the…
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Patriotic Alternative treasurer’s mystery links to spooks and fraudsters
Within hours of Searchlight reporting yesterday on the death of Patriotic Alternative treasurer Steve Blake, some of the many online…
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Top nazi’s death is blow to Patriotic Alternative
One of Britain’s most secretive nazis and a key player in Patriotic Alternative, died this week aged 61. Steve Blake…
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Liverpool anti-fascists go toe to toe with far-right thugs and see them off
Today, in Liverpool, reporting for Searchlight, I found myself in the forefront as anti-fascists fought off a violent mob of…
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Homeland Party in crisis as hardliners demand leader Kenny Smith quits
Last weekend the Homeland Party’s obese duce Kenny Smith was posing in Vienna (above) as leader of “sensible nationalism”. His…
Culture
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Review: Celebrating Billie Holiday, jazz great and civil rights activist
A great night at the Jazz Café, Camden, on 7 April when we were transported back to the Jim Crow…
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‘Lili Marlene’: the song that haunted the Nazis
One song and two singers came to represent opposition and resistance to Hitler in the Second World War. The most beautiful…
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Berlin and the red triangle
The red triangle was in the news recently when the city of Berlin senate banned its use on activities related…
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Theatre Review: The Accidental Death of an Anarchist, by Dario Fo and Franca Rame
The Accidental Death of an Anarchist is a play that arose from events in December 1969, when Italian fascists bombed…
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All time Lowe…
Ex-Reform now independent MP Rupert Lowe reacts hysterically to the sight of a rowing boat off the Norfolk coast, sparking an interception by HM Coastguard… …who discover that they are three men and a woman rowing from Land’s End to…
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‘Open letter’ sparks open revolt in Homeland
The Homeland Party is facing an imminent and damaging split, as dissidents supporting Steve Laws have submitted an open letter…
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Has Tommy Robinson thrown UKIP under the bus?
Tommy Robinson’s decision to join up with Ben Habib’s Advance UK is a moment of crisis for UKIP, which has…
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‘Threats, bullying, lies, harassment’ – former supporter accuses ‘Team Tommy Robinson’
Clare Walsh and James Hodges, aka The Viking, are highly-capable organisers and for some time have been front and centre…
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Tommy Robinson joins Ben Habib’s Advance UK
Tommy Robinson has announced that he is joining Ben Habib’s Advance UK party, and is calling on his followers to…
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Reform UK selects UKIP branch officer as election candidate
The Reform UK vetting system appears to have suffered another glitch, but not the usual type where nutjob extremists are…
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Manchester – latest chapter in Britain First’s slow death
Britain First leadership was confidently predicting thousands of marchers for its event today in Manchester. It turned out to be…
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The ‘stay behind’ NATO operation behind the Bologna bombing
The massacre on 2 August 1980 at Bologna railway station when a bomb planted by fascists killed 85 people, including…
Anti-fascism
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Epping sets anti-racists a challenge we cannot shirk
In Epping, organised fascists and their racist supporters have scored a notable victory over the last couple of weeks. The…
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Epping this Sunday – anti-racists must nip far-right violence in the bud
On 7 August last year, in response to direct fascist threats of violence against organisations helping migrants and asylum seekers,…
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Fanning the flames – far right aims to whip up summer of race riots
Let’s be under no illusions about the significance of this week’s events in Epping – this is simply the first…
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Labin 1921: miners lead Europe’s first anti-fascist revolt
The Labin Uprising of 1921, often heralded as the first anti-fascist revolt and workers’ republic in Europe, is a landmark…
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Sweden ‘remigrates’ PA leader Mark Collett
Patriotic Alternative leader Mark Collett is a very unhappy chap tonight. Travelling to Sweden to address a ‘Free Sweden’ event tomorrow (Saturday) he decided to get there a couple of days early to enjoy the camaraderie of his Nordic nazi…
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‘National Protest’ organiser suggests funds pay for his mortgage and ‘washing machine repairs’
Great British National Protest organiser Richard Donaldson has infuriated his far-right supporters by appearing to suggest online that their contributions…
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Tommy Robinson – what we know about the St Pancras incident
After an altercation at St Pancras station in London on Monday evening, which ended with an elderly man unconscious on…
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Obituary: Horst Mahler (1936-2025), from left-wing terrorist to leading nazi and holocaust denier
German security forces are on alert after the death of Horst Mahler, the Baader-Meinhof terrorist who became one of Europe’s…
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Epping sets anti-racists a challenge we cannot shirk
In Epping, organised fascists and their racist supporters have scored a notable victory over the last couple of weeks. The…
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Homeland bigots burn children’s ‘no place for hate’ banner in Epping
This was a simple message of welcome and harmony posted in Epping by a group of parents and their children.…
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Norwich anti-migrant protest organiser arrested
Anti-fascists are busy all over the country today as local far right groups try to capitalise on events in Epping,…
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Epping this Sunday – anti-racists must nip far-right violence in the bud
On 7 August last year, in response to direct fascist threats of violence against organisations helping migrants and asylum seekers,…
Holocaust
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An anniversary David Irving would rather forget
Last Monday was David Irving’s birthday. He celebrated it from his sickbed to which he has been confined for over…
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Fascists and antisemites mourn death of rogue bishop
Last week’s funeral of the far-right, schismatic Bishop Richard Williamson brought into sharp focus the longstanding connections between some ultra-conservative…
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Heritage Party leader bemoans ‘injustice’ for holocaust-denying nazi
Searchlight has been reporting for several months on the increasing radicalisation of right-wing parties. Not just the obviously racist and…
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Kristallnacht remembered
To mark the anniversary of the 1938 November Pogrom, otherwise known as Kristallnacht, we reprint a special article published by…
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Poland’s far right targets refugees
Just as in Britain, the US and Hungary, the far right in Poland is now mobilising around the question of immigration. Over the last month the country has witnessed a number of worrying developments. The first was in the run…
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Farage’s false claims risk stoking racist violence
Last year’s race riots became known as the Farage Riots for one simple reason – Nigel Farage went online and…
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Gang of fruitbats and convicted crooks to descend on Wales
The Tommy Robinson fanboys who make up the far-right, self-styled Voice of Wales are holding a public event in south…
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‘Tommy Robinson’ winds up Canary Wharf protests
So, if you were wondering how far-right protestors turned up so suddenly yesterday at a hotel in Canary Wharf in…
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Exclusive: Homeland defector exposes ugly truth behind ‘sensible nationalism’
Alex Bramham has always been on the right of politics. Last year he stood in the General Election for the…
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‘They’re calling us nazis’ protests ‘Heil Hitler’ nazi
That troublemaking POS Ryan Ferguson was arrested yet again yesterday, this time at the racist demonstration against the construction of…
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Grim up north : far-right ‘Manchester Protest’ flops
When Claire Walsh, the organiser of the much-vaunted and much-hyped Manchester Protest, aka National Strike, disappears off to Dover for…
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No rain, but far-right Dover ‘National Protest’ is still a washout
Although the promised south coast thunderstorms didn’t materialise, the Great British National Protest on Dover beach today turned out to…
Today's top ten most read articles
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‘They’re calling us nazis’ protests ‘Heil Hitler’ nazi
That troublemaking POS Ryan Ferguson was arrested yet again yesterday, this time at the racist demonstration against the construction of…
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Grim up north : far-right ‘Manchester Protest’ flops
When Claire Walsh, the organiser of the much-vaunted and much-hyped Manchester Protest, aka National Strike, disappears off to Dover for…
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No rain, but far-right Dover ‘National Protest’ is still a washout
Although the promised south coast thunderstorms didn’t materialise, the Great British National Protest on Dover beach today turned out to…
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Nick Tenconi’s US mates join Epstein child abuse cover-up
The American parent organisation of Nick Tenconi’s Turning Point UK has caved in to pressure from President Trump and dropped…
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Tommy Robinson on his sunbed again – in £10k a week Portuguese resort
Tommy Robinson’s supporters need to get their wallets out. There’s almost certainly another appeal for funds on its way for…
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Labin 1921: miners lead Europe’s first anti-fascist revolt
The Labin Uprising of 1921, often heralded as the first anti-fascist revolt and workers’ republic in Europe, is a landmark…
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Reform UK election candidate attends neo-nazi Summer camp
Searchlight can reveal that a Reform UK election candidate is actively involved with a neo-Nazi organisation. One of their most…
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White Vanguard nazi is prominent Reform activist
Meet Kai Cunningham. He’s a law student whose LinkedIn profile says he wants to develop his public speaking skills. So…
